Egg Moron posted:

The trajectory is

Rollerball to deathrace 2000 to soylent green to Zardoz

blatman posted:

you're right but the craziest thing about this post isn't that our world is crumbling around us while all we can do is watch and do nothing and old dystopian fiction is now almost-utopian [...]

SKULL.GIF posted:

open your goddamn eyes. there isn't snow anymore. the parts of the world that isn't loving supposed to get snow is being buried in snow. winter lasts like 7 weeks now instead of 16 weeks. Open Your Goddamn Eyes

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

T-Paine posted:

Expect the narrative to really quickly switch from "we need to do what little token gestures we can to avoid the worst of locked-in climate change" to "well it's here, suck it up, we might as well take advantage of it while we still can because if we don't China or Russia will"

actionjackson posted:

is it possible to estimate how many humans have lived and died since humans first evolved?

Pryor on Fire posted:

No this has been studied by lots of scientists the answer is about 100 billion. Yes they figured out the proper definition of when humans became human.

Raine posted:

lol

Popoto posted:

I'll one up you and say the day after tomorrow

Pobrecito posted:

seeing more and more cracking and pinging in the wild

Cup Runneth Over posted:

drat, that's straight up C-SPAM posting, surprised the mods didn't crack down on it

also, buy them accounts, etc.

bobmarleysghost posted:

I went to a small dinner hangout recently with a couple of people and one of them talked about how they've just read Uninhabitable Earth and it was fun to finally meet someone in the real world that was crack pinging

Cloks posted:

i've seen all of these except zardoz, guess i know what i'm doing tonight

does escape from new york fit in between soylent green and zardoz?

e: video tax for the snipe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtTNhPm1_xg

Egg Moron posted:

Zardoz is great. It owns the libs so loving hard.

Escape from new york is actually before Rollerball since the state had not yet been entirely captured by corporate power.

Escape from new york is utopian as gently caress compared to now.

I wish an antihero accelerationist could save us.

We all do.

Egg Moron posted:

Zardoz is great. It owns the libs so loving hard.

Escape from new york is actually before Rollerball since the state had not yet been entirely captured by corporate power.

Escape from new york is utopian as gently caress compared to now.

I wish an antihero accelerationist could save us.

We all do.

bedpan posted:

I don't think it is overstatement, pessimism, or alarmist to say that we will see incredible horrors during our lifetime, global warming is going to continue, and that not only are we alone without anyone to save us, the people with the most amount of power and control are deliberately hampering anything that could be done to abate the onrushing disaster.

Those out there who are really "doing something" to make an impact on climate change are uniformly working to make climate change worse.

Egg Moron posted:

Zardoz is great. It owns the libs so loving hard.

Escape from new york is actually before Rollerball since the state had not yet been entirely captured by corporate power.

Escape from new york is utopian as gently caress compared to now.

I wish an antihero accelerationist could save us.

We all do.

Trabisnikof posted:

Zardoz predicted social media cancel culture

quote:

Scientists raise alarm over ‘dangerously fast’ growth in atmospheric methane
As global methane concentrations soar over 1,900 parts per billion, some researchers fear that global warming itself is behind the rapid rise.

Methane concentrations in the atmosphere raced past 1,900 parts per billion last year, nearly triple preindustrial levels, according to data released in January by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Scientists says the grim milestone underscores the importance of a pledge made at last year’s COP26 climate summit to curb emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas at least 28 times as potent as CO2.

The growth of methane emissions slowed around the turn of the millennium, but began a rapid and mysterious uptick around 2007. The spike has caused many researchers to worry that global warming is creating a feedback mechanism that will cause ever more methane to be released, making it even harder to rein in rising temperatures.

“Methane levels are growing dangerously fast,” says Euan Nisbet, an Earth scientist at Royal Holloway, University of London, in Egham, UK. The emissions, which seem to have accelerated in the past few years, are a major threat to the world’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5–2 °C over pre-industrial temperatures, he says.

Enigmatic patterns
For more than a decade, researchers have deployed aircraft, taken satellite measurements and run models in an effort to understand the drivers of the increase (see ‘A worrying trend’)1,2. Potential explanations range from the expanding exploitation of oil and natural gas and rising emissions from landfill to growing livestock herds and increasing activity by microbes in wetlands3.

“The causes of the methane trends have indeed proved rather enigmatic,” says Alex Turner, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Washington in Seattle. And despite a flurry of research, Turner says he is yet to see any conclusive answers emerge.

One clue is in the isotopic signature of methane molecules. The majority of carbon is carbon-12, but methane molecules sometimes also contain the heavier isotope carbon-13. Methane generated by microbes — after they consume carbon in the mud of a wetland or in the gut of a cow, for instance — contains less 13C than does methane generated by heat and pressure inside Earth, which is released during fossil-fuel extraction.

Scientists have sought to understand the source of the mystery methane by comparing this knowledge about the production of the gas with what is observed in the atmosphere.

By studying methane trapped decades or centuries ago in ice cores and accumulated snow, as well as gas in the atmosphere, they have been able to show that for two centuries after the start of the Industrial Revolution the proportion of methane containing 13C increased4. But since 2007, when methane levels began to rise more rapidly again, the proportion of methane containing 13C began to fall (see ‘The rise and fall of methane’). Some researchers believe that this suggests that much of the increase in the past 15 years might be due to microbial sources, rather than the extraction of fossil fuels.

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

They didn't "figure out" when humans evolved, they invented it. That's what taxonomic classification is, an invention

Perry Mason Jar posted:

Unfortunately the viability of interbreeding can't be determined when working with extinct species.

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

yeah, super mystifying what changed around 2007 that had anything to do with methane


…oh, says here methane is often referred to as ‘natural gas,’ I wonder,